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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bottom, the problems rest on two statistics. World consumption of coffee is increasing an average 500,000 bags a year; production, ballooned by a worldwide planting spree during the Korean war, is increasing at the annual rate of 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 bags. Hardest hit is the world's No. 1 producer, Brazil, which last year earned 61% of its foreign exchange by exporting 14.3 million bags* worth $935 million. This year, with much of the world's coffee selling for less than Brazil's rigidly fixed prices, the most optimistic export prediction...
...preparatory institution, Scarsdale is highly competitive for both "honor-roll" and average students. There is an intensive scramble among bright pupils to "make" a good college, and one of the hardest tasks of the deans is advising students to look colleges other than the traditional ones in the East. Of 194 graduates in 1956 who went on to further schooling, forty-six ended up at Ivy League institutions or one of the "big-name" schools for girls...
Biggest Beat. An ordeal less dangerous than stoning but more exhausting came at La Paz, Bolivia, where the 11,900-ft. altitude gave the newsmen soroche -high-altitude sickness. Forced to run through crowds to keep up with Nixon, most came down with splitting headaches and failing memories. Hardest hit was Associated Press Photographer Henry Griffin, 46, who had to take deep draughts from a heavy oxygen tank he toted on his back. Cracked Griffin: "Let's get off this hill -I want to die breathing...
Commodity prices have been on the way down since 1956, when Western Europe's resurgent economy started to level off. This year the U.S. recession drove demand down still farther -and pushed many an exporting nation into a financial crisis. Many of those hardest hit were also the victims of their own financial inexperience and ambition. While the money was rolling in, they spent too much on too many of the wrong things, figuring that the boom would last forever...
Biggest single age group in the clinic's range from eleven to 21 is made up of baffled, questioning 14-year-olds, who seem hardest hit by adolescence. Nearly a third of their complaints have no medical basis. But not all are so simply psychosomatic as those of the boy whose serious headaches began when his father remarried shortly after the death of his mother -who had similar headaches. Many surface complaints turn up real trouble: vague pains sometimes signal diabetes, tumors, infections, heart disease...